In the times of lower album sales EVERYWHERE the old certification standards make no sense anymore imo.But lowering the levels isn't the right move either this time I think. There are HUGE superstars who still barely reach Gold, yet there are also stars out there who still manage to get back to back platinum albums or even reach multiplatinum.

What do you guys think of a Silver Certification (like in the UK) for, lets say, 250k in the US? It's reachable for many artists, a certification, but not too high... It's an achievement. Not outstanding but it would be an achievement.

(and for some of the latest releases I would even invent an Aluminium award for 100k copies - seriously)

Does anyone happen to have a list of the acts with the most #1, Top 5, Top 10 and Top 40/charting songs on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart that are more comprehensive than what's posted on Wikipedia?

... With such an intense activity, the whole world surrounding the music industry gets hot, including charts and sales websites and forums. Many fans open doors of those Medias for the first time hoping to get information about their favorite artist last album performances. Sadly, even supposed chart experts are posting highly inaccurate data at the moment. Statistics of Mediatraffic, often used as the easy-going total, has got worse than ever with very amateur errors on most of their figures....

... With such an intense activity, the whole world surrounding the music industry gets hot, including charts and sales websites and forums. Many fans open doors of those Medias for the first time hoping to get information about their favorite artist last album performances. Sadly, even supposed chart experts are posting highly inaccurate data at the moment. Statistics of Mediatraffic, often used as the easy-going total, has got worse than ever with very amateur errors on most of their figures....

With the way streaming is taking over and specially Albums Charts, then I guess it's safe to assume the actual Hot 200 (for example) will have a behaviour similar to that of the Hot 100? I mean, a huge album will most likely stay on top for 7, 8, 9 weeks and won't decline as fast.

I remember chart trajectories in the pure albums sales as 1-7-20-33-26-14-10-8 (an example) but I don't see how such trajectory will show up with Streaming, they'll be more like 1-1-2-2-3-2-3-2-1-2. The chart will be kinda boring to watch. What do you guys think ? ^^

jpguy wrote:With the way streaming is taking over and specially Albums Charts, then I guess it's safe to assume the actual Hot 200 (for example) will have a behaviour similar to that of the Hot 100? I mean, a huge album will most likely stay on top for 7, 8, 9 weeks and won't decline as fast.

I remember chart trajectories in the pure albums sales as 1-7-20-33-26-14-10-8 (an example) but I don't see how such trajectory will show up with Streaming, they'll be more like 1-1-2-2-3-2-3-2-1-2. The chart will be kinda boring to watch. What do you guys think ? ^^

Depends on the artist.

Drake and Kendrick Lamar will fit perfectly with your projected trajectory. An act like Bon Jovi or U2 will be more like 1-21-89-195.

The album charts are way too slow. You cant blame the streaming though. Nobody is selling and the gap between 1 and 10 is a mere 50,000 units. Imagine the gap between 10 and 40. Now we're talking what? 5,000 units?